Pokémon in Serbia

The Pokémon franchise first reached Serbia with the airing of Покемон, ја бирам тебе!. In Serbia Pokémon can be written as Покемон or Pokemon though the English logo is used in the anime.

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Pokémon video games

Various Pokémon games are sold in Serbia, but they are left in English. Until 2004, Beosoft was responsible for selling Nintendo games in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro. In 2004-2007, Computerland was the official distributor. In the years 2007-2013, CoolPlay was an exclusive distributor of Nintendo.[1] Since 2016, CD Media has been selling games.[2]

Pokémon movies

The only movies that were dubbed in Serbian are movies 4, 5 and 7. M05 is still dubbed by Loudworks, but M04 and M07 were dubbed by studio Prizor. M07 was released under the title Судбина Деоксиса. All of them, except for M05, were released on DVD. The songs were not dubbed.

A Serbian subtitled version of Detective Pikachu was shown in cinemas on May 16, 2019.

Pokémon and grammar

The word покемон Pokémon as well as the names for each Pokémon are fully inflected in Serbian. Покемон is written in lowercase when referring to the species and is written in uppercase or uses Pokémon when referring to the series as a whole. Individual Pokémon and character names are often the English name transcribed into the Cyrillic alphabet or derived closely from their English name; for example, Meowth becomes Мјау Mjau.